Boomerang Bill
| Boomerang Bill | |
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| Directed by | Tom Terriss |
| Written by | Tom Terriss (scenario) |
| Based on | "Boomerang Bill" by Jack Boyle |
| Produced by | William Randolph Hearst (for Cosmopolitan Productions) |
| Starring | Lionel Barrymore Marguerite Marsh |
| Cinematography | Al Liguori |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 6 reels; 5,489 feet |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
Boomerang Bill is an extant 1922 American silent crime melodrama film produced by Cosmopolitan Productions and distributed through Paramount Pictures. Adapted from a Boston Blackie short story by Jack Boyle,[1] it was directed by Tom Terriss and stars veteran actor Lionel Barrymore. It is preserved incomplete at the Library of Congress and George Eastman House.[2][3][4][5][6]
Plot
[edit] | This article needs a plot summary. (February 2024) |
Cast
[edit]- Lionel Barrymore as Boomerang Bill
- Marguerite Marsh as Annie
- Margaret Seddon as Annie's Mother
- Frank Shannon as Terrence O'Malley
- Matthew Betz as Tony the Wop
- Charles Fang as Chinaman
- Harry Lee as Chinaman
- Miriam Battista as Chinese Girl
- Helen Kim as Chinese Girl
References
[edit]- ^ Boyle, Jack (December 1920). "Boomerang Bill". Cosmopolitan. Retrieved August 27, 2016.
- ^ Progressive Silent Film List: Boomerang Bill at silentera.com
- ^ Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress page 20 by The American Film Institute, c.1978
- ^ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921–30 by The American Film Institute, c. 1971
- ^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films:Boomerang Bill
- ^ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: Boomerang Bill
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Boomerang Bill.
- Boomerang Bill at IMDb
- Boomerang Bill synopsis at AllMovie
- Period newspaper clipping Boomerang Bill
- Lionel Barrymore and Marguerite Marsh in a film scene (University of Washington, Sayre Collection)
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Categories:
- 1922 films
- American silent feature films
- Films based on short fiction
- Paramount Pictures films
- 1922 crime drama films
- American black-and-white films
- 1920s melodrama films
- Boston Blackie films
- Films directed by Tom Terriss
- 1920s American films
- Silent American crime drama films
- 1920s English-language films
- English-language crime drama films
- Silent crime drama film stubs